Improvement in baling-presses



EDWIN it WALLACE, OF JONESVILLE, OUTH CAROLINA.

Letters Patent No. 111,993,dated February 21, 1871.

i IMPROVEMENT IN BALlNG-PRESSES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom yit incl/y eoncern Be it known that I, EDWIN 1t. WALLACE, of Jonesville, in the'District ofUnion and State of South Carolina, have invented anew and improved Ealing-Press; and I do hereby declare that t-he following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a side view of my improved Daling-press.

Figure 2 isa vertical transverse section of the same,

. taken on the plane of the line a' fc, g. l. y

Similar letters of reference indicate.corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new baling-press of that kind in which4 two followers are used, one above the other, they being secured, respectively, to right and left-hand screws, and moved toward o1' away from each other by being turned together with the box.

The invention consists in a new Combination ofpart-s, as hereinafter more fully described.

Ain the drawing represents the hed or bottom support of my improved hailing-press.

From its ends project posts B 13,\vhiel1 earry a top beam, G, above the press.

1) is the baling-hox, madeof wood or other mate-` rial, of prismatie form, and open at both ends.

A door, a, is provided in each side of the box, at or nearthe middle ofthe saine.

13 is the upper follower ofthe press.

F, the lower follower.

, These followers are, respectively, secured to right and left-hand screws G H, which project through threaded nuts I J, that are fastened in the beams G and A, respectively. The followers are of such proper size as to lit the box in the manner indicated in the drawing.

The box D is, by suitable straps, l) b, connected with a top plate, c, and bottom plate el.

lThe bottom plate (Z rests on balls c c, which are placed into an annular groove on top of the lower nut J The screw H passes freely through the plate al.

The top plate c is held against the faee of the upper nut I, either directly or by intervening rollers or balls. 1t is freely traversed by the serew G.

\Vhen the twofollowers are furthestapart the lower will still be in the lower part of the box D, while the upper will be out of the box, as seen in fig. 1, so that itcan he turned to open part of the box and allow the insertion from above of the material to be baled. The box is now turned so as to turn both followers with it, and will thereby cause the same to approach eaeh other and compress the material between them.

W'hen the requisite degree ot' compression has-been obtained the rotary motion is arrested and the doors a opened for tying the bale. Then the box may be revolved in opposite direction, to slaeken the bale and permit its easy removal through the door,

v During the revolution of the press and follower the friction is ehietly absorbed by the balls e, and in part, also, 'by the upper friction-surface.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The baling-box D, straps b, and plates c and if, open at both ends, and revolving in frames A B C Dcom bned, as described, with two followers, rotating on a right and a left screw, for the purposespeoiiied.

` ED'WIN R. WALLACE.

Witnesses:

.TERMIAH LARKIN, Wn. STERN. 

